Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Putting the "Dent" in "President"
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.03.2005
She lets herself into Grayadder's room and asks for a private moment with the guy who shouldn't even be awake yet. "Oh, no, don't you even think of feeling sorry for me," Grayadder warns, promising he'll walk again. "I know you will," DoDder lies, and moves to his side. Turns out Grayadder did in fact want to see his true love, as we learn from his first question: "Where's Kiefer?" DoDder says Kiefer's out in the field. "He called a little while ago, wanted to know how you were doing." Grayadder's eyebrow-cocked expression doesn't change, but I think he's just hoping she won't notice that he's not paralyzed directly below the waist. "He knows that bullet was meant for him," DoDder adds. "I was just trying to push him out of the way." Grayadder confesses. "I didn't expect to get shot myself." DoDder tells him how brave he was, and starts kissing his hand while trying not to cry. Grayadder regards her silently. We cut away before he can ask, "Is Kiefer back yet? Now? How about now?"
Out on the floor, Soul Patch tells Bitchelle that the LAPD is widening its search for ImhoTerror, but are still striking out. Hard to believe, since nobody can seem to find him even when they know exactly where he is. Bitchelle frets, "Kiefer said something was going to happen within the hour. If we don't find ImhoTerror --" She's quickly cut off by Soul Patch, as well as the arrival of Buchanan, who wants to know if ImhoTerror is secured yet. Bitchelle has to tell him that ImhoTerror must have slipped through the perimeter. "How the hell could you let that happen?" Buchanan snaps. Hey, buddy, does she look like a perimeter to you? Bitchelle just looks at him guiltily while Soul Patch leaps to her defense and says they're doing everything they can to find ImhoTerror. Buchanan asks what that constitutes, and an uncharacteristically chastened Bitchelle runs through a litany of procedures that even to me sounds like a big steaming pile of nothing. Fortunately, Lispy Skip breaks into the conversation to notify them that Kiefer's on the line and he "thinks he's got something." Buchanan orders the call put on speaker.
It's 10:20:05. Kiefer's found an area of the ImHideout that was used to forge documents, and some of the papers survived the explosion. He's having Agent Castle -- who also survived the explosion -- upload them now so CTU can go through and cross-reference them with a watch list. Why is Castle doing this kind of busywork? Why not wake up one of the perimeter guards from his nap? Kiefer hangs up, telling them to get back to him if they find a match.